{"id":11988,"date":"2026-11-10T16:49:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/?p=11988"},"modified":"2026-11-10T16:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:49:17","slug":"what-data-center-decommissioning-actually-involves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/what-data-center-decommissioning-actually-involves\/","title":{"rendered":"What Data Center Decommissioning Actually Involves Beyond Pulling Old Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have ever been the person left holding the keys to an empty data hall, you will know the moment when everyone realizes the job is not finished. The racks are gone and the servers are on a truck, and then the landlord asks about the raised floor, finance asks why forty assets are still on the books, and the security team asks where the drives from the storage array actually ended up. Nobody has a clean answer, because the project was planned as a hardware removal and not as a data center decommissioning.<\/p><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_79_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #ffffff;color:#ffffff\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #ffffff;color:#ffffff\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/what-data-center-decommissioning-actually-involves\/#Myth_1_Data_Center_Decommissioning_Is_an_IT_Hardware_Job\" >Myth 1: Data Center Decommissioning Is an IT Hardware Job<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/what-data-center-decommissioning-actually-involves\/#Myth_2_Wiping_the_Servers_Covers_the_Data_Security_Side\" >Myth 2: Wiping the Servers Covers the Data Security Side<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/what-data-center-decommissioning-actually-involves\/#Myth_3_Once_the_Truck_Leaves_It_Is_Somebody_Elses_Problem\" >Myth 3: Once the Truck Leaves, It Is Somebody Else&#8217;s Problem<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/what-data-center-decommissioning-actually-involves\/#Myth_4_Recycling_the_Leftovers_Is_a_Simple_Disposal_Step\" >Myth 4: Recycling the Leftovers Is a Simple Disposal Step<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/what-data-center-decommissioning-actually-involves\/#Myth_5_An_Empty_Room_Means_the_Project_Is_Finished\" >Myth 5: An Empty Room Means the Project Is Finished<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/what-data-center-decommissioning-actually-involves\/#Myth_6_The_Paperwork_Can_Wait_Until_Everything_Is_Gone\" >Myth 6: The Paperwork Can Wait Until Everything Is Gone<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/what-data-center-decommissioning-actually-involves\/#The_Part_That_Decides_Whether_the_Project_Went_Well\" >The Part That Decides Whether the Project Went Well<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have worked on enough of these projects as an independent infrastructure consultant to have a strong opinion on this. The servers are the easy part. They are visible, they are on a spreadsheet somewhere, and every vendor in the business wants to haul them away. The part that goes wrong is everything around them, which tends to be spread across facilities, legal, finance and security, with no single owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stakes are not abstract. IBM&#8217;s 2024 Cost of a Data Breach report put the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.ibm.com\/2024-07-30-ibm-report-escalating-data-breach-disruption-pushes-costs-to-new-highs\">global average cost of a data breach at $4.88 million<\/a>, and a single drive that leaves a building without a record is the kind of gap that can start one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The easiest way I have found to explain what a full data center decommissioning involves is to go through the assumptions that people bring into the project, and what actually happens in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Myth_1_Data_Center_Decommissioning_Is_an_IT_Hardware_Job\"><\/span>Myth 1: Data Center Decommissioning Is an IT Hardware Job<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Data center decommissioning is the planned retirement of a data center or a part of one, which includes shutting down workloads, removing and disposing of the equipment, destroying or sanitizing the data on it, and returning the physical space to an agreed condition. That definition matters, because the last three items are where most of the work and most of the risk sit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In practice, a decommissioning project touches at least these groups, and each of them has something it needs signed off before the doors close:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>IT operations: migrating or retiring workloads, confirming backups, and shutting systems down in the right order so that nothing still in production goes dark.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Information security: deciding how each type of media will be sanitized or destroyed, and what proof will be kept.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Facilities: power, cooling, fire suppression, the raised floor and the building itself.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finance and legal: the fixed asset register, maintenance and software contracts, the lease, and any regulatory obligations that apply to the data that lived in the room.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you assign the whole thing to the server team, they will do the part they understand very well and leave the rest for someone to find later. My view is that every decommissioning project needs one named owner whose job is to hold all of these workstreams together, even if that person does not do any of the physical work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"524\" src=\"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Data-Centre-Decommissioning-at-a-Glance-1024x524.jpg\" alt=\"Infographic illustrating the data center decommissioning process, including workload shutdown, equipment removal, secure data destruction, facility restoration, and the four key teams involved: IT operations, information security, facilities, and finance and legal.\" class=\"wp-image-11997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Data-Centre-Decommissioning-at-a-Glance-1024x524.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Data-Centre-Decommissioning-at-a-Glance-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Data-Centre-Decommissioning-at-a-Glance-768x393.jpg 768w, https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Data-Centre-Decommissioning-at-a-Glance-1536x786.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Data-Centre-Decommissioning-at-a-Glance-600x307.jpg 600w, https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Data-Centre-Decommissioning-at-a-Glance.jpg 1752w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Myth_2_Wiping_the_Servers_Covers_the_Data_Security_Side\"><\/span>Myth 2: Wiping the Servers Covers the Data Security Side<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wiping the server drives covers some of the data security side, but usually not all of it. The data-bearing inventory in a typical data center decommissioning is much wider than the server chassis, and the method that works for one kind of media does not work for another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What counts as a data-bearing device?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anything that has stored configuration, credentials or customer data at any point should be treated as data-bearing until proven otherwise. That list usually includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hard drives and SSDs in servers, as well as the drives in storage arrays, which are often a separate chassis with a separate owner.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Backup tape and the tape libraries that hold it, including cartridges that were sent offsite years ago and are still on a retention schedule.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Network switches, routers and firewalls, which keep configurations, keys and sometimes logs in flash.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Management controllers, spare drives sitting in a cabinet, and the odd USB stick taped inside a rack door.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why one method does not fit every drive<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a data center decommissioning, the sanitization method has to match the media. Degaussing works on magnetic media such as hard drives and tape, but it does not work on SSDs or other flash storage, which need a manufacturer secure erase, a cryptographic erase, or physical destruction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overwriting is useful when the drive is going to be reused, and shredding is the right answer when it is not. GPUs, CPUs and memory modules do not keep user data once power is removed, so they do not need the same treatment, and spending money shredding them is a waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is also a legal side to this. In the United States, the FTC Disposal Rule requires businesses that hold consumer report information to take reasonable measures when they dispose of it, and one of the examples it gives is the destruction or erasure of electronic media so that the information cannot practicably be read or reconstructed. Sector rules such as HIPAA for health data and PCI DSS for card data add their own obligations on top of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Myth_3_Once_the_Truck_Leaves_It_Is_Somebody_Elses_Problem\"><\/span>Myth 3: Once the Truck Leaves, It Is Somebody Else&#8217;s Problem<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the assumption I push back on the hardest, because it is where an otherwise careful data center decommissioning tends to fall apart. Legally and practically, your organization still owns the risk for every data-bearing device until there is a record showing what happened to it. A pickup receipt that says &#8220;14 pallets&#8221; is not that record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a data center decommissioning, a chain of custody is the documented, unbroken history of who had control of each asset, from the moment it left the rack to the moment it was reused, recycled or destroyed. A good one is built at the serial number level and not at the pallet level, and it should be possible to take any single drive serial number and trace it from the original inventory to a final disposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What a defensible chain of custody looks like<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my experience, the decommissioning projects that hold up under an audit share a few habits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The inventory is taken before anything is unplugged, and it records serial numbers for every data-bearing device, including the ones that never had a server asset tag.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Each asset is assigned a disposition before removal (resale, redeployment inside the business, recycling, or certified destruction), so that nobody is deciding what to do with a drive while it is sitting in a warehouse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Equipment travels in locked or sealed transport, and the count at the destination is reconciled against the count at the source, with any difference explained in writing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Each destroyed drive gets a certificate that names the method used, and the final manifest lists every serial number with its outcome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putting all of this into operation is where most internal teams stall, because it is a logistics job and a compliance job at the same time. That is the reason specialist data center decommissioning providers exist.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the providers that has built its service around this way of working is <a href=\"https:\/\/bigdatasupply.com\/end-of-life-it-solutions\/data-center-decommissioning\/\">Big Data Supply<\/a>, an R2v3 and RIOS certified company whose data center decommissioning services start with a disposition plan for each asset, carry an itemized, serial-level manifest and chain-of-custody records from the site through final disposition, and issue a destruction certificate for each data-bearing drive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a business planning a data center decommissioning across more than one site, that kind of single, reconciled record is what an auditor will actually ask to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Questions to ask any decommissioning partner<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are comparing providers for a data center decommissioning, these questions tend to separate the careful ones from the rest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Can you show me a redacted sample manifest and a sample certificate of destruction?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Is the certificate issued per drive with a serial number, or per job?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How is the asset count reconciled between my site and your facility, and who signs for differences?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Which media do you wipe, which do you degauss, and which do you shred, and why?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Which recycling and environmental certifications do you hold yourselves, as opposed to the ones your downstream partners hold?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Myth_4_Recycling_the_Leftovers_Is_a_Simple_Disposal_Step\"><\/span>Myth 4: Recycling the Leftovers Is a Simple Disposal Step<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The environmental side of decommissioning a data center is a regulated workstream of its own, and it reaches well past the servers. A data hall contains several categories of material that cannot simply go in a skip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>UPS batteries. Large lead-acid or lithium battery strings from the UPS system are a common item. Under federal rules, batteries are one of the categories that can be handled as universal waste, which means they must be managed in a way that prevents releases to the environment and must end up at a facility that is permitted or designated to receive them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cooling equipment. In almost every data center decommissioning, the computer room air conditioning units and chillers contain refrigerant, and the EPA&#8217;s Section 608 rules prohibit intentionally venting refrigerant when disposing of refrigeration and air conditioning equipment. This is a job for a certified HVAC contractor and not for the hardware removal crew.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Electronics that cannot be reused. These should go to a certified electronics recycler. The EPA recommends using certified electronics recyclers and names the R2 and e-Stewards standards as the two accredited certifications currently in place.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The volume involved is also worth keeping in mind. The UN&#8217;s Global E-waste Monitor 2024 estimated that the world generated 62 billion kg of e-waste in 2022, and that only 22.3% of it was documented as formally collected and recycled. My own opinion is that reuse should be the first choice for any equipment that still works, because redeploying or reselling a working switch keeps it out of that figure entirely, and recycling should come after reuse has been ruled out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Myth_5_An_Empty_Room_Means_the_Project_Is_Finished\"><\/span>Myth 5: An Empty Room Means the Project Is Finished<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An empty room is usually the start of the facility restoration phase, not the end of the project. If the space is leased, this phase is often the most expensive surprise in the whole data center decommissioning, because the lease almost always says something about the condition the space has to be returned in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What facility restoration typically covers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The specific scope depends on the lease and the building, but these items come up again and again:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Removing overhead cable trays, underfloor cabling and abandoned power whips, and capping or making safe any electrical circuits that are no longer needed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deciding with the landlord whether the raised floor stays or goes, since removing it is a large job and some landlords would prefer it left in place.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Draining and decommissioning fire suppression systems, as well as having generator fuel tanks emptied and removed according to local rules.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Repairing wall and floor penetrations and restoring fire stopping where cabling used to run between rooms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cleaning the space and completing a joint walkthrough with the landlord, with photographs, before the keys are handed back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Read the lease before you plan the schedule<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are planning a data center decommissioning in a leased building, I would suggest reading the restoration clause and the notice periods before anything else is scheduled. A clause that requires the space to be returned to its original shell condition can add weeks of work and a high cost, and it is much easier to plan for that at the start than to discover it during the final walkthrough. Some colocation agreements have similar make-good terms for cages and suites, which are easy to overlook because the space is smaller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Myth_6_The_Paperwork_Can_Wait_Until_Everything_Is_Gone\"><\/span>Myth 6: The Paperwork Can Wait Until Everything Is Gone<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The paperwork is what proves the project happened properly, and in my experience it is much harder to put together after the fact than during the work. A complete closing file for a data center decommissioning project usually includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The final asset manifest, reconciled against the original inventory, with a disposition for every serial number.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Certificates of destruction or sanitization for every data-bearing device, and recycling certificates for the material that was recycled.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Updates to the fixed asset register, so that finance can write off or transfer the retired equipment correctly.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cancellation notices for hardware maintenance contracts, software licences tied to the retired hosts, and any circuits or utility accounts for the space.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The signed facility handover from the landlord or the colocation provider.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If an auditor, a regulator or a customer asks a year later what happened to a specific drive, this file is the only answer that counts. It is worth naming the person responsible for it at the start of the project, as well as agreeing what the file will contain, so that it is built up as the work happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Part_That_Decides_Whether_the_Project_Went_Well\"><\/span>The Part That Decides Whether the Project Went Well<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I look back at data center decommissioning projects that went smoothly and ones that did not, the difference was very rarely the hardware removal itself. It was whether someone had planned the data security, the chain of custody, the environmental handling, the facility restoration, and the documentation as real workstreams with owners and deadlines, rather than as tasks that would sort themselves out after the servers were gone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you plan the project around those workstreams from the first week, the server removal tends to become the most predictable part of the whole job, which is how it should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn what data center decommissioning involves, from secure data destruction and asset tracking to e-waste recycling, facility restoration, and compliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11998,"href":"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988\/revisions\/11998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redstaglabs.com\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}